Re: mounting an electronics project
From: KevinR (me_at_privacy.net)
Date: 08/03/04
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Date: Tue, 03 Aug 2004 22:19:05 GMT
On Sun, 01 Aug 2004 20:20:19 -0700, davidfromtas
<david_removeablejunk_.rolph@cox.net> wrote:
>Hello sci.electronics.basics
>
>I hope this post is not off topic. If so my appologies. Also since I
>dont really know what I am doing I may not express myself that
>clearly. Please bear with me.
>
>I bought a bunch of PC parts the other day and build a little PC on
>our guest bed. Now I want to clean it up by putting it in a box or at
>least mounting it cleanly. I have a hard drive, a tiny little ITX
>motherboard and a power supply.
>
>I have built PCs before in standard cases, but this time I want to
>make the housing. My idea is to use some kind of sheet metal (a flat
>piece of aluminium?) and drill holes in it to mount the parts. Where
>I need vertical stuff I was thinking that perhaps I could find some
>little angle brackets and use them to mount strips of metal going
>vertically. If that works out I might make a persphex cover for the
>whole thing but that is for part 2 of the project.
>
>After some thought I decided that must be the kind of problem that you
>electronics project people do all the time.
>
>Could somebody recommend a resource on how to do this? I went to
>Fry's, Radio Shack and Home Depot (I live in Orange County, CA) but
>couldnt find the kinds of things I am guessing I need. What is the
>kind of store that sells things to do this called (a googleable term
>would be nice).
>
>I dont have a lot of tools or stuff, but am willing to spend some
>money to be successful in this project. I dont want to go out and buy
>some premade solution. I want to build it. Also if you want to make
>some suggestions please make it pretty simple I am starting from
>scratch here. For example: dont say "cut some holes in the back panel
>for the ports", say "use an sonic screw driver to cut some holes in
>the back panel for the ports".
>
>Any advice much appreciated.
>
>Cheers,
>
>David
I got part of the way through doing this my self.
I managed to get a piece of 3mm Dural sheet from a local Aluminum
stockist. I drilled (carefully) through the mounting holes in the
motherboard, not all the way through the dural, just enough to mark
the positions, then moved the motherboard out of the way before
drilling right through. I got M4 spacers and bolted them on to the
dural and fixed the motherboard to the spacers using M4 screws.
Then I got a right-angle AGP adapter which would allow my video card
to fit horizontally ( I was after a low profile so it would fit under
my telly like a VCR) . I made a mounting bracket for the harddrive
from some angle aluminum with some of those soft rubber gromets from
inside an old CD rom drive for vibration and bolted the PSU on like
you were suggesting and that is as far as I got. I was going to fit a
DVD drive which would sit just above the, now horizontal, video card.
but the skeleton PC now sits under my telly whith no box around it and
although I like the "borg ness" of it, it isn't very pretty.
Kevin R
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